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Adding VirtIO drivers to Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE)

Add VirtIO drivers to your Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) to recover hard disks or recover your Windows virtual machine after a hard crash. Learn to customize your Windows System Restore and rescue Windows like a pro!

By Jan Reilink 23/11/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

Windows Server 2016 on Hyper-V stuck at stopping

If a Windows Server 2016 guest VM on Hyper-V hangs while stopping after Windows Updates, and it won't reboot, it might be caused by the recovery debug information type set. Especially when you have moved the Windows PageFile to a different partition/VHDX.

By Jan Reilink 28/02/2018Windows Server

PowerShell

How to detect ethernet network speed in Windows

Detect the ethernet network speed using PowerShell or WMI is perfect for Windows Server Core. If you ever need to lookup the speed of your ethernet network card in Windows, on the command-line, use one of the following WMIC commands on your PowerShell prompt

By Jan Reilink 12/05/2017PowerShell

PowerShell

List all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Learn how to list all MAC address of all VM's in Hyper-Vusing PowerShell. You sometimes need to list and get all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V virtual machines in your network, either for your administration or provisioning. Here is how.

By Jan Reilink 12/08/2016PowerShell

PowerShell

Get Hyper-V guest serial number with PowerShell

Get Hyper-V virtual machine's serial number (BIOSSerialNumber) with PowerShell. Easy to use & unique information in automation, deployments and documentation. Perfect for an automatic, unattended deployment of the guest OS.

By Jan Reilink 20/09/2015PowerShell

MONIT - Barking at daemons. Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

GNU Linux

Monit monitoring on Ubuntu 14.04 VM on Hyper-V

Set up a Monit monitoring service for your websites and services. Monit is a free and open source service monitoring application which can perform various event-based actions. Monit can send email notifications, restart a service or application, or take other responsive actions. We set Monit up on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM, built on Hyper-V. And we use Monit to monitor several websites, and send out notifications on downtime.

By Jan Reilink 15/02/2015GNU Linux